Sometimes throwing money at job works . As the Pentagoncontinues to shin with cybersecurity , their sci - fi - like R&D department , DARPA , is ready to start writing checks . The agencyjust denote a competitionto build a “ fully automated cyber defense system . ” The marvellous prize ? $ 2 million .
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The so - called “ Cyber Grand Challenge ” will take spot over the next three years , which seems like plenty of time to write a few line of code . But DARPA’snot just asking for any former cyber demurrer system . They want one “ with reasoning abilities exceeding those of human expert ” that “ will create its own noesis . ” They want it to deflect cyberattacks , not in a affair of days — which is how the Pentagon presently works — but in a thing of hours or even seconds . That ’s profoundly difficult .
The notion of a competition like this seems kind of laughable at first — a government agency arrange a giant capture the masthead - stylus challenge for a seven - figure John Cash prize . This model has actually been dementedly good in the past , though . The Cyber Grand Challenge is really model after the 2004 contention to build a ego - driving car . Though none of the cars even finished the seven - mile course that year , the Stanford squad thatwon the following yearwent on to construct Google ’s famous robo - car . The very scary but also awful Atlas robotwent through a like operation , too .
In light of those successes , it ’s not a huge surprisal to see the Pentagon outsourcing their cyber defence project . I entail , have you envision the stuff they ’ve come up withinternally ? [ DARPAviaForbes ]
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